ASRA cease and desist against CoagRef: Difference between revisions

Publish Incident article: ASRA cease and desist against CoagRef. Documents the May 2026 removal of a free physician-built iOS clinical reference app (CoagRef) by Houston-based anesthesiologist Rishi Kumar after legal demands from "a large organization in anesthesiology," contextualized against the April 2025 conversion of ASRA's own Coags app from a $3.99 one-time purchase to a $6.99 annual subscription that locked out prior buyers, with patient-safety stakes (spinal epidural hematoma from mi...
 
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